At about 8:20 a.m., 11 crew members were getting ready to go out on the Coast Guard cutter Osprey when one of the crew spotted a body floating about 60 feet from shore, according to Chad Curth, the officer in charge.

After notifying police, two crew members in a 17-foot boat from the rear of the 87-foot Osprey determined that the woman was dead and could not be rescued, Curth said.

The body was towed to the dock, where personnel from the Port Townsend Police Department and East Jefferson Fire-Rescue were waiting.